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Projectile pollen helps this flower edge out reproductive competition

Some flowers may be using their pollinators as sexual battlegrounds. Red, Brazilian flowers called Hypenea macrantha use projectile blasts of…

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Static electricity may help butterflies and moths gather pollen on the fly

Birds do it. Bees do it. Even butterflies and moths do it. As lepidopterans flutter their wings, friction with the…

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Butterflies and moths suck up pollen with static electricity

While bees get most of the pollination hype, butterflies and moths are some of our planet’s power pollinators. While in…

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